The Border Kid — Max Brand

The Border Kid would stand out in any crowd of young Mexicans. Not only was Ricardo Perez unusually cunning and brave, but he was fair of skin with hair that blazed like the sun.

Outlaw William Benn took no time to recognize Ricardo's talents or to feel there was about him an undeniable streak of luck. Benn took the boy under his wing, training him to shoot and think like a renegade and to act like a highborn Spanish gentleman.

Soon Ricardo's moment had arrived -- nothing stood between him and marriage to Maud Ranger, a cattle baron's daughter worth seven million dollars -- nothing except his first killing and whatever was left of his honor.